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No one asked for this but i’m going to share my thoughts anyway.

Medusa and Carmilla carried my ass through the early fgo game. i just started this account in March or February. I stopped ascending Medusa when I found out there would be a banner with Achilles on it and I wanted to use all my Rider materials on him instead, and as you can see, my #1 boy is all the way to 100, maxed out Fous, because I love him.

Bedivere? Has a bitch slap like no other. Caesar? My secret weapon. I don’t know why I don’t see more talk about how amazing Caesar is. I chose to grail Bedivere instead because he has those big ooga booga Buster damage hits, but I think Caesar might be better, given skills and crits and all that. Lakshmibai? I freakin’ love watching her flip around and even though her NP hits like a wet noodle, her regular attacks are really good!

Sei surprised me. I call her Sei the Slayer. She is surprisingly awesome. I literally could not stand her at first because she’s so... ... ... loud and annoying. But overtime, even that grew on me. When she says Heian Beam? It’s so silly and adorable. And she mows down everything in her past. Sei the Slayer fears no Sabers. Sei the Slayer eats Sabers for breakfast.

Cu Chulainn obviously had to be Grailed. I put him in the back with Volumen Hydrargen or whatever it’s called for every fight, and he has never failed to pull through for me. He just refuses to die, and I like that in a man. First string Lancer is obviously Romulus, though. I had to roll for him; I’m Italian, he’s basically my grandfather.

Achilles. My love. I need no other Riders but you. His voice lines for selecting his NP, and then when he DOES his NP? I need a minute. (passes out). That GROWL at the end. Mmf. Of all FGO men, Orrie is hot for Achilles. Medusa and Mandricardo fill the back bench. I like Medusa better. Everything says Mandricardo is better but I just don’t get it. His best skill literally kills him. What is the point of that.

I got Waver with the Free SSR ticket. Everyone said I needed him and I didn’t understand why, but now I understand, and now he’s in every single line up. People were speaking TRUTH when they said that just having him will make the game easier. Apparently, supports are just as important as damage dealers. I never knew. I just rolled Merlin on that Sunday last week when he was up, and two of him showed up. Very excited to pair him with Bedi and Romulus and my big Buster guys. And for damage dealing Casters, Medea had me THRIVING in the first few singularities, just Rule-breaker after Rule-breaker. And I have Caster Gil. I forget about him and when I use him I’m always surprised. When I need a Caster to kill things, I use Caster Gil.

I love Franny, but I don’t understand why everyone says she’s so good. I like using her because she’s cute but she really doesn’t do too much damage. I am really looking forward to making my Penthesilea big and stronk, but honestly??? I barely use Berserkers. They’re so fragile, I just don’t see the point. I don’t know how to use them.

And those are my thoughts. I’m F2P but I’ve had really good luck. I don’t think I’ll save too much for Castoria, since I have Waver and Merlin. What I really need is a decent Assassin so Carmilla doesn’t have to do it all herself, and a single target Rider might be nice. I don’t know if they make those. Can’t think of one besides Ozy.

Anyway, I watch a lot of youtube videos to help me through the game and I’m having a lot of fun. Bedi, Sei, and Carmilla all have special places in my hearts as Servants that I had low expectations of who have just blown me away.

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In depth character questions. anon said: For the character question meme: 1, 3, 20

1. Death is an inevitable part of life. What is your character’s experience with death? Have they had someone close to them die? Have they ever killed someone? How did these events affect them? Have they been able to move on? What do they believe happens to people when they die? And why? How does your character feel about death? Do they feel at ease, or uncomfortable with the idea of dying?

Most of Lyra’s family is still alive, thank goodness. Her grandparents all passed away in peace during her childhood due to natural causes, and her parents and her siblings are all still alive. She has, however, removed quite a few people from this world. Due to her extremely cold upbringing, she was taught to regard criminals very harshly, and so if she was unable to capture a pirate or criminal and was forced to neutralize them instead, she did so without hesitation or questioning. It’s part of her job; every soldier in any branch of any military cannot question their actions with the enemy, or else they’d never step foot on the battlefield. Frankly, she doesn’t think about it too much. It’s just a part of her life.

Lyra thinks there is an afterlife, though she isn’t sure what it’s like. She imagines clouds and light and reunions and happiness. Lyra isn’t afraid of dying, but she is afraid of leaving her life behind. She has a daughter and does not want to leave her alone in the world; she’s also afraid of what parts of history that have not yet come to pass that she will miss out on.

3. Religiousness is the ritual act of spirituality, it refers to devoutness and piety. Is your character religious? Are they part of a large, organized religion, or a smaller, more personal one? How do they express piety and devotion? is this important to them? Or do they do it out of obligation. When did they begin their habits and why? Is it something they were raised in or something they learned as they grew older?

Lyra is not religious. Her home island has a minority of residents who believed in the ‘old gods’, which are highly reminiscent of what we know in our world as the Hellenic deities, and Lyra is very familiar with them and celebrates the islands’ festivals with them, but she doesn’t take it very seriously. She doesn’t mind recounting stories and talking about it, but this religion has not been widely practiced on her home island in many hundreds of years. She thinks most people just do it to keep up with tradition.

20. Not all relationships are healthy, or are even good for us. Has your character ever had any unhealthy, toxic, or abusive relationships? How did your character know the other person in the relationship? If and when did your character realize that this relationship was unhealthy? Was the toxicity mutual, or one-sided? What sort of behaviors, from one, or both parties, defined this unhealthy relationship? Has your character been able to move on from this relationship, or are they still ‘stuck’ in it? If they are past the relationship —or writing from a perspective where they are past it— talk about how your character reflects on it. Is there regret? A sense of satisfaction? Or have they not allowed it to affect them? Could they or would they make amends, if possible?

Violence, emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse under the cut.

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From one one-armed scarred redhead to another, Battleship 71 diverted course form pursuing Red Hair give attention to the Kidd pirates. Lyra hadn’t ever chased after a Super Rookie before; they hadn’t been in the New World very long, and her attention was taken up by the Yonko crew, but HQ said go.

While the battleship steamed across the waves, Rear Admiral Lyra read and re-read the files she had received on the targets. They were a powerful crew... There was a reason for their high bounties; they didn’t mind conducting atrocities against innocent people and defeated crews, apparently. The captain’s Devil Fruit would prove troublesome... very troublesome. Lyra’s battleship only had two Devil Fruit users on the crew; Lyra herself and a young Petty Officer who worked in navigation who had eaten a Devil Fruit granting them the mysterious power of rust... whatever that meant. This was to say --- Battleship 71 was comprised of gunmen and swordsmen and would be very vulnerable to the captain of the Kidd pirates, who had power over metal, like a magnet of sorts. Lyra had argued with HQ that her crew was not the best option, and she provided numerous other options and names of crews that would be better to send, but hey... At the end of the day, orders were orders and she turned her ship around.

Their mission was to lay siege to the stronghold, capture as many Kidd pirates as they could, subdue their more powerful members, and ultimately arrest them, removing them from the chessboard of the New World --- and they would do the best they could with what skills and equipment they had. Lyra spent hours on the way there planning the course of attack. Undoubtedly, the Kidd pirates wouldn’t expect anyone to directly attack their stronghold. Her plan was to take advantage of surprise and chaos, then present the adversary with a cascading series of disasters as their superior numbers made the difference. So long as her Marines held tight to their firearms and swords, there were far more Marines than there were Kidd pirates. If their captain got their weapons away from them, though, they would be vulnerable. Lyra had no doubts she could handle the young man, but how long would it take before so many of her unarmed Marines were killed? If they lost their weapons, they’d be fish in a barrel. She had to take that balance into consideration. Death was to be expected; a slaughter was to be avoided.

As the island came into view, Lyra was alerted and she put the files away in her desk, standing up and departing her office in favor of walking out onto the weatherdeck. She crossed the deck and climbed up onto the cannons on the bow, standing firm with her arms crossed over herself. Speed would be key. Get in, immediately create controlled chaos. Don’t give the enemy time at all to regroup. Do you job, and get out. She ensured the mission was communicated to the divisions of Marines while they armed up. The battle plan was the same as when they lay siege to the stronghold of the Seville pirates. They had done this before, and they’d do it again.. Ten minutes later, the Marines landed and began their amphibious assault.

***

The assault on the Kidd pirates went exactly as Lyra expected it to. They steamed through the nobody pirates immediately, capturing a great number of them, but the longer the fighting continued, the more time the adversary had to collect themselves and figure out just what the Hell was going on. She was losing Marines left and right in the fight to the stronger members of the Kidd pirates, like that son of a bitch with the scythes --- the number as climbing, but the mission hadn’t yet been accomplished. They had to push. And push they did, right up until the Marines of Battleship 71 entered a stalemate with the Kidd pirates.

The enemy was skilled, that was for sure. From what Lyra had observed, this fight was going to continue until both sides were completely dead --- and that didn’t work for her. If all her Marines died, then they wouldn’t be able to complete their mission tomorrow. Lyra was, in a word, pissed that the HQ sent them here. The Marines that remained were hunkered down behind her, guarding the groups of Kidd pirates they had claimed who were wrapped in reinforced ropes from their ship, knowing better than to use metal chain.

Lyra’s nose had a smudge of gun powder on it, and some of her long white hair stuck to her forehead from sweat. She held a man with stitching on his face and long blue hair down on his knees in front of her (his name was Heat, according to her files, and he meant something to the captain) her sword held aloft and pointed at the back of his neck in a threatening manner while she stared across the way at their captain, daring him to move a muscle. He was young, but his very appearance seemed to have been cut from violence and anarchy. In comparison, Lyra had entered her dramatic Hybrid Zoan form a long while ago, using her extra strength to keep her sword in her hand. Her shield hung on her arm that held Heat, and her four angel wings were flared out about her in a statement of aggression and domination.

“Captain Kidd,” she said, addressing the man across the way from her. It was INCREDIBLY RARE for Lyra to address a pirate captain with ‘captain’, but he had earned the respect through his tenacity. “Your crew can beat my Marines, but you can’t beat me. So let’s call it here.”

It was dangerous to challenge him like that, but from her perspective, the longer this went on, the more his crew would slowly kill her Marines and the more she would kill his crew until only he and her remained. She didn’t want that, though. She wasn’t going to fight him and let her unprotected Marines die in the meantime. There was no point in fighting until all her Marines were dead along with the Kidd pirates. Each second that passed, Marines were dying from their wounds, the same as his men. She needed this to be over so she could heal them. He needed this to be over so he could save his men, too. If they continued... it would be devastating to both the Kidd Pirates and Battleship 71.

“If we keep going, both our crews will be decimated. Give me back my Marines unharmed, and I’ll release the Kidd pirates we’ve captured... and we’ll return to our battleship and go.”

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(54:) What advice would you give to a new roleplayer?

Two things.

Don’t be shy. Everyone here reblogs memes, posts open starters, posts starter calls, and opens their hearts up in the hopes that you will send that meme, reblog the open starter, and like the starter call. No one’s out here thinking, ‘gosh, really hope no one sends that meme or likes my starter call’. So just jump in! Send asks! That’s the only way to get writing partners! As long as you’re both mutuals for mutuals-only blogs, consider that an open invitation. I don’t know a single person who hates having people come to them to write.

With regards to the creation of an OC, be cognizant of the consequences that may occur if you slap everything onto your muse like an accessory. With regards to One Piece, maybe don’t give your 18 year old muse a legendary Devil Fruit, all three forms of Haki, Rokushiki, master swordsman or firearm skills, the Will of D, and famous or influential heritage all at once. Abilities and traits like these change your muse’s life and as such, their personality and biography should change along with it, and it would change the One Piece world on a grand scale if an individual with all these powers existed (see: Luffy). In doing so, by creating a character that would have influence on the world on a grand scale, you’re automatically imposing your character onto other muses and forcibly changing their backgrounds because their muses would have had to have heard of yours and would have to respond to their existence in the world. Also, think about how that affects your muse; life changes drastically when you eat a DF or gain Haki; it shouldn’t just be applied like an accessory to a muse after you create them; it should be considered an integral part of their character that affects every decision and action they make from that point on. It’s also just not necessarily believable that someone very young would have all these skills.

As always, do what you want. No one has to listen to me. This is just advice/opinion.

(4:) Have you ever cosplayed as your muse?

Nope. Not a cosplayer.

(865:) What does your URL mean?

Seraphiixa comes from the term seraph, meaning ‘an angelic being, regarded in traditional Christian angelology as belonging to the highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, associated with light, ardor, and purity.’ -iixa is just a suffix I occasionally throw on the ends of urls. Former urls I’ve used with this have been rosiixa, nordiixa, wariixa (which still exists; catch me in the Fate fandom sometimes). It’s a nod to her Devil Fruit.

(0:) If your muse is an OC, then how did they come to you?

Yikes. A number of years ago, I had an original character who had the Angel Angel Fruit, but I hadn’t perfected it yet. I didn’t have a grasp of what I wanted the Fruit to be --- and, you guessed it, I kind of just slapped it onto an OC and called it good, not considering how it might affect their life. This time around, I did it a little different.

Upon return to this fandom, I knew I wanted to write a Marine. I’m in the Navy in real life, and I just get a kick out of writing the ‘other side’ of One Piece. I knew I wanted to recycle the Angel Angel Fruit because I like the concept of it, but because it’s so powerful, I knew she had to be older in order to make it work, or I’d be breaking my own rules about OCs. Since she’s older, she had to be a higher rank. So I considered a Rear Admiral or a Vice Admiral with the Angel Angel Fruit, but let’s fill in the blank, here.

At that rank, it’s plausible that she would have been trained by someone. They don’t just let anyone become Rear Admirals. Vice Admiral Garp is too big of a character for me to be comfortable saying she had a history with him, so I decided on Vice Admiral Tsuru --- which makes sense, because Vice Admiral Tsuru is the right age to have trained Lyra in her early years and she also had a battleship of only female Marines. So under Vice Admiral Tsuru’s mentorship, what kind of person would Lyra have turned out to be? She would have logically taken after Vice Admiral Tsuru; she should be pragmatic, calm, fiercely dedicated to the job but also someone who thinks before they take action.

So I had the basic building blocks of Lyra right there. Let’s look at the Fruit, though.

Angels are designed to pursue evil and preserve good. That means logically, her Angel abilities should only work on actually evil characters. Which means she can’t just go after anything and everything underneath a pirate banner anymore because not all pirates are evil. This leads to suspicion from her peers. This leads to a lack of trust from those appointed above her. It turns her professional reputation upside down. That means they will not make her a Vice Admiral because Vice Admirals take part in Buster Calls, and she would be physically unable to blow up entire islands full of innocent people. Imagine if word got out that the Navy knew what they were doing was wrong (because of her Fruit having some sort of Divine guidance on good and evil) and did it anyway. The optics of it would be catastrophic; the Navy would lose all credibility, moral high ground, and trust from the people they’re charged with protecting. She will not be promoted to Vice Admiral for this reason (hence why I decided to make her a Rear Admiral), and because she will not be promoted to Vice Admiral, it makes sense that the Navy would not train her in the use of Haki; which would only make her stronger and make her a greater liability if she turns on them (which she won’t). Plus, a Mythological Zoan Fruit plus Haki is just too much, but I needed a reason as to why someone her age and skill would not know Haki, since everyone and their mom knows Haki now. Because of the distrust from her peers and superiors due to restraints placed on her from her Fruit, Lyra is now somewhat of a black sheep in the Navy despite being ferociously committed to the Navy. Boom, inner conflict I can fall back on to drive her character forward.

See how Devil Fruits affect characters? They’re not just to provide offensive capability to your muse. They should provide a backdrop just as much as any other part of their past. Name one One Piece character whose Devil Fruit has not completely changed the trajectory of their life?

Anyway! Yeah. I wanted to write a Marine and Lyra happened.

(3844:) What do you do when you get writer’s block?

I don’t get writer’s block. Writing is a compulsion I’ve never been able to escape.

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